Name: John Costello
Address: 2267 Lava Ridge Court, Roseville, CA, 95661, US
Telephone: Not Available
Price range: $ 375-375 per hour

Practice Areas

Copyright Infringement 20%

Copyright infringement occurs when a third party copies an author's copyrighted work or else infringes on a number of other enumerated rights exclusive to the author under the U.S. Copyright Act. Copyright cases must be pursued in federal court and damages and an injunction are some of the remedies that are available to the copyright owner.

33 years

20%

Intellectual Property 20%

Intellectual property includes trade secret cases which involve the protection of inventions through state trade secret laws, rather than through federal patent laws. The advantage is that trade secret protection can potentially last hundreds of years, while patent protection lasts twenty years maximum.

33 years

20%

Patent Application 20%

Patent applications are filed to cover particular inventions. The application is filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office at which time the application enters the "patent pending" phase. A usualy pendency time of two years is typical. During the two years, our firm prosecutes the application through to an issuance. Once issued, the patent offers twenty years of protection in the case of utility patent applications.

33 years

20%

Copyright Application 10%

Ownership in a copyright is created once the author fixes the work (e.g. a book, artwork, computer program, sculpture) in a "tangible medium." (e.g. paper (book); flash drive (computer program); bronze (sculpture)). A copyright application is applied for in order to enforce an author's copyrights in federal court. Typical pendency is less than 8 months.

33 years

10%

Patent Infringement 10%

Patent infringement occurs when a third party produces a product which incorporates the elements of at least one claim of a patent owner's patent. The elements in the claim must be interepreted for their meaning and then matched against the infringing product. If a match is made, then infringement is likely. The patent owner can seek damages and an injunction as remedies for patent infringement.

33 years

10%

Trademark Application 10%

A trademark is typically a word or group of words or a logo which identifies the source of a good or service. A federal trademark application can be filed to provide trademark coverage throughout the 50 states, provided that no confusingly similar marks exist. The time from filing to issuance in the case of federal trademarks is usually about a year.

33 years

10%

Trademark Infringement 10%

Trademark infringement occurs when a third party uses a trademark owner's trademark in a confusingly similar way. Usually the third party and trademark owner operate in the same industry selling the same goods or services. An owner has the option of suing for common law, state trademark or federal trademark infringement. In the U.S. merely using a mark without ever registering it will grant the user ownership rights which the owner can then enforce in court.

33 years

10%

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$ 375-375 per hour

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